$250K worth of cocaine stored in cereal boxes seized during traffic stop

Friday, March 29, 2019
MERCED, Calif. (KABC) -- A traffic stop on a California highway turned into a major drug bust when police say they found cereal boxes stuffed with cocaine.

Police officers initially stopped the driver in Merced for illegal tinting on the windows.
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Police became suspicious, searched the car and found three cereal boxes, each holding about a kilogram of cocaine.

The street value of the cocaine was $250,000.
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